This is the kind of thing I value in Rails. Active storage [1] has been around for a few years and it solves all of this. All the metadata you care about is in

This is the kind of thing I value in Rails. Active storage [1] has been around for a few years and it solves all of this. All the metadata you care about is in the database - content type, file size, image dimensions, creation date, storage path. [1] https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_storage_overview.html https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_storage_overview.html